Lip Filler
A Song Review
A wry and restless meditation on the exhaustion of modern life, these lyrics capture the disorienting feeling of living in a world that is simultaneously stagnant and moving too fast to follow. From unpaid domestic labor to corporate drudgery, social media rabbit holes to beauty culture obsession, the song catalogues the quiet overwhelm of everyday existence with equal parts humor and heartache. The fantasy of filling your face with chemicals or fleeing to Canada in a car lands as both absurd and completely understandable — the kind of escape hatch the mind reaches for when reality gets too heavy. At its core it's a song about the gap between the life you're living and the life you imagined, held together by the repeated, plainspoken confession that no one ever warned you it would be this hard — and the small comfort of knowing someone else feels exactly the same way.
“We are in the middle of a technological revolution and we are the test subjects. Historically, this has not gone well for the people living through majorly transformative eras.”
Lyrics
Every day I ask myself
I get to wondering
Where’s this going
What is happening
Nothing changes
It all just stays the same
Simultaneously
There is so much change
I can’t keep up
I can’t slow down
Gonna stay here living large in my little town
Clean the kitchen
Mow the yard
Do some gardening
At least I’m taking care of what needs to be
A lot of work to do
Without getting paid
I should go and get a job
Be a corporate slave
They want you distracted
Everything’s on a screen
So you miss out on what is happening
I’ll wonder about you
And you’ll wonder about me
And we’ll wonder what the other is thinking
I’ll argue with strangers on the internet
No one ever said it would be this hard
It would be this hard
It would be this hard
Maybe I should pump my face full of chemicals
Never show my age with any wrinkles
Fill my lips and fill my eyes
Fill my soul give me a disguise
If I don’t show my emotion
You won’t know what I’m feeling
I could be a Kardashian
I could be boring
Darling, let’s go to Canada
We can live in our car
No one ever said it would be this hard
It would be this hard
It’ll be this hard
No one knows that it’ll be this hard
It’ll be this hard
It’ll be this hard
